#CST - 10 Commandments - 9th Commandment (#CST35)

Thank you for joining us here at #Christian Straight Talk - As we are still in the 10 Commandments in the book of Exodus chapter 20 looking at 9th Commandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbour" or in short "Do not lie".

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SPEAKER_00 0:30

Good morning, world, wherever you are this morning. Thank you so much for joining us here today as we are gathering across the mics for hashtag Christian Straight Talk. We're streaming on a few platforms this morning, this live stream broadcast. It is Thursday, the 12th of January, and it is uh 10 minutes to 11. For those that are joining us on this broadcast, we welcome you. I can see you jumping online in the mighty name of Jesus. And for those that will join us also uh in the world of podcasts in a week later, this is hashtag Christian Straight Talk Simon and myself as we are just trying to unravel life and just trying to find that that hope in Christ Jesus from the cross of Calvary and everything we talk about. And we're back in the Ten Commandments, we're back uh in the Ten Commandments, and we're making our way forward. And I honestly didn't realise how big and how vast the subjects are in there because it it all goes together, it all moves together. So Simon's with us, and we're gonna just see how we go on this one. And we're in Exodus chapter 20, verse 16. Simon, morning.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Good morning, Ben. It's great to be back. It's good to see you, my friend. In the across the mics in the pod room. Um, yeah, this is um mate when I started having a look at this. Big stuff. Shh, it's like uh it's like opening the the toy, the the door to the toy box, and it all comes out flying at you, Ben. You know?

SPEAKER_00 1:52

It's enormous, the ten commandments, the whole subject of it.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

The whole subject, and yeah, and we'd we'd invite you. We've done um a number of podcasts on uh on the all the commandments up to this point. So we'd invite you to go back and listen to that because it really unearths some real truths, Ben, doesn't it? And and put some questions in. And if you know, if you're struggling with anything out there, believe me, you're not struggling alone because you know the majority of us have got struggles that we go through every day, mate.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Massive struggles going on at this moment in every house. Most people's lives, people are worried about what's happening in the future, what's going on, and we're looking to find the answer. We're trying to uh it's like it's endurance time, isn't it? It's like we're we're at the gym of life and we've got to push through and keep going at it.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

Yeah, you you're 100% right, uh Ben. And what we say is that uh you we can't do this without Jesus, and and and and we we come back to the cross each time. So people are trying to struggle uh in their own strength. Um it's hard, it's difficult. It's still difficult with Jesus, but you know, he promises that he will give us rest and he gives us hope for the future. So so Ben, you know, we're another week closer to glory, aren't we?

SPEAKER_00 3:13

We're another day, another hour to God calling us home. We're getting closer. But just as Simon was was talking there, and I was just just zoned off for a moment because I'm just thinking and looking at where we sit as in the end times, because it's very important to understand where we sit. So when we look at governments, when we look at the world of business, when we look at education, when we look at all these big hitters that that seem to govern us and seem to control us as families and individuals and as humanity, when we look at that, if if we keep our eyes on that, it's really gonna wear us down, isn't it? So what we are doing is that even though we're looking at these Ten Commandments, we we want to make sure that Jesus is lifted all the time, which he is, and let you know that we want to encourage you that whatever situation you're in at this moment, however you look at the world, you know there is always hope. Never ever give up because there is a way forward. And we are in Exodus chapter 20, and we are in verse 16, and it says, Uh, you shall not give false testimony. What a massive line. Straight away, I I'm going somewhere and I'm already there.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Well, you would have think, you know, do not lie is the is is the translation to that, really, isn't it? And you and and at first, when we like if we just skim over the Ten Commandments, do not lie. Well, it's pretty straightforward, isn't it? You know, do not tell a lie, do not tell an untruth. But there's so much more to it than than than just that.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

It's almost show stopping, isn't it? It's almost stopping the conversation. Because when you think about that scripture, how God used Moses to write the Ten Commandments, that everyone goes together. But when you look at that, that that scripture alone straight away, but please forgive me, where does my mind go? My mind goes straight to education, the liar that is being given to our children at the moment, the liar that you can be whoever you want to be, you know, you've got all this this this gender issue, you know, you've got all this this stuff that's out there that you can be who you want, when you want, how you want to be it, and you've got all these, like you mentioned something just off air. Simon mentioned the Santa Claus, the the Father Christmas one, obviously. And and when you look at that one, and then you look at the tooth fairy, and then you look at the elf on the shelf, and then you look at all this stuff, and then you look at education. If you take education at this moment, what it is spinning out to our children, the youth, and it what what's happening, we are seeing clearly now creation.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

This is gonna bring up a big place, I've got to stop. I've got to stop because you're going all over the place, and and we're gonna come to it all. And we're gonna come to to all of those individual uh subjects we're gonna we're gonna come through and we're gonna work our way through it because it is the truth. Now, now the biggest lie told uh out there at the moment is that there's no there's no God, He don't exist, there's no Jesus, He don't exist. That's the biggest lie. Jesus is not the Son of God, all that sort of that's the biggest lie. But uh, you know, you're quite right. I think the second biggest lie is that there is a Santa Claus, you know, there's this geezer in a red suit who's a bit large with a white beard who somehow Christmas Eve makes it into your house and gives people presents that you haven't paid for. It's and I'm I'm sorry if I burst anyone's bubble out there, but he ain't true.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

So you're telling me he's not real? You're telling me that he doesn't. You've got to tell your daughter he's not real. Uh she's that old 20. 25, 24, 20, 20. Sorry, Molly, yeah, 25. But when when you when you look at that, when you look at all this traumatized, though, Ben, when they suddenly realised But this is what's happening in education, they're traumatized because they're being told something, and their natural bodies and their mind and their understanding and their thinking is made in a certain way, and they are being driven to certain teachings and certain theories, and it's causing confusion. And we have on the couch of um stress and worry and fear more children than we have ever seen adults.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Didn't he quite simply see it's not complicated. Quite simply, Jesus said, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and everything else will fall into place. So if you're not pointing to Jesus, then everything else is going to be a train wreck, which it is.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

So human beings, we're I know we're we're driving the the cross and and everything and God and and Christianity, but even when you look at humanity itself, the the the spin that's put on everything that you can be whoever you want to be, you can achieve whatever you want to achieve. And when the achievement doesn't come through, and you've been even through a motivational speaker and you listening on YouTube and you you buy into all this stuff, you're gonna be rich, you're gonna be this, and it doesn't come, it affects it affects the human being.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

It's a teaching actually, yeah, the prosperity gospel so wrapped up. It does affect is it affects do you know something and and uh this is not going uh off track, but what you from like what you said, I was sitting um in in a in a doctor's surgery a couple of years ago, and uh there was a lovely lady there, and uh this was quite uh uh you know a well-to-do area, and um I started talking to her. My wife was getting uh uh you know, seeing being seen. So I started talking to her, and her son was uh 18 years of age, he was going through his A level A levels, I think they still do them. Um in a in a in a private school that uh that's paid for, a college that they paid for. And the dad the dad was a military guy, and she said to me, Do you know what she said? Almost every person in his year group is taking some form of tranquilizer, some form of antidepressant.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

And we're told that that is okay. That is okay, but it's not fixing, is it? It's not it's it's not fixing what that the the rhetoric and the lying and the falsehood, the scripture says you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8 32.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

John 8 32, so what is the truth?

SPEAKER_00 9:37

So for Christ to make the truth is Jesus. It's as simple as that. So we so we find everything we need as human beings in the scripture, and if the world, and if you look at Nigeria, you look at Pakistan, and you look at India, India is trying to get the conversion law set very simply that they could wipe every church out. Now we've got to remember that there is, I think there's 67 million Christians in uh India, and if they can wipe that out, they're trying to wipe Christianity out. Nigeria, that without going into all that sort of stuff. What I'm saying is is the world and governments and authorities are trying to get rid of the truth. Who is the truth? Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

God's been pushed out, Ben, a long time ago out of government, hasn't he? Yeah, he's being pushed out of all this thing, he's been now he's being pushed out of education, he's being pushed out of uh uh anything. The creation's been uh been pushed out of universities and stuff like that. But if we bring this down, this this um Exodus six um 2016 down to a base level, yeah, I guarantee that everyone who's listening to this now, when someone says to them, Are you okay? How you feeling? How are you feeling?

SPEAKER_00 10:55

I'm fine, I'm alright. I'm I'm okay, Simon, everything's okay. No, you're not. Well I'm not telling the truth because I don't think it's a lot of people. So you know, we're we're we're open We're masking things. So we use we use language to we're using language to to mask things over.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

Because also we could be frightened of if coming out with the truth and saying, Simon, I feel a bit broken today, I feel really lost today, we're frightened of how society uh because there has been a culture that has been bred to us that you have got to be robust, you have got to be an iron man, you have got to be a woman that goes out and does absolutely everything. You're trying to do it, and we have not been built to do what we are supposed to be doing now. We have got the biggest amount of breakdowns across from early ages to the old ages, and we are finding that society has been robbed of the truth, which is Jesus Christ, through every area. No wonder we are going, I'm not alright, actually.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

Well, you you're digging a bit deep here, and and and what you're saying is the truth, but but what you say is the truth, but but even uh don't get if we don't dig as deep as that, people just don't want to share with each other, do they? Feelings, and and you know, you ask the lady on a checkout, How are you this morning, sweet? Oh I'm okay, how are you I'm okay, everything's good, get your shopping. Now, what I do what I've done now is go, well, we say we're okay, don't we? But you know, we we don't want to spend two hours, I don't want to spend two hours telling you about my stuff. She's and then she'll go, Yeah, I've got stuff going on, and and and we just be honest with each other that we've both got stuff going on, but we're not going to share, you know, we're gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

And you know what? I think by talking and being truthful of how a human being is feeling, it brings freedom because totally freedom. I'm not feeling too good today, you're not feeling too good today. We're both on a on a common platform. How do we get over it? How do we get over the the feeling of being down? How do we get over the feeling of hearing all this stuff that's coming out of the government through the UK space program that's firing billions of pounds into the air? The program went wrong, and then around us, or around me in this community and myself, all of us are stretched for a few quid. We're trying to put food on the table, universal credit, you can't get this, you can't get that, social housing, and then we have a government that is firing money billions into the air, and the poor nurses who knew about that? No one knew about it. No one knew about it. Suddenly it popped out. Virgin aircraft carrying a great big rocket underneath it.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

I think on one level, what you said before, you we you are correct, but on a on another level, we seem to people seem to on social media want to share all their problems.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

So all of a sudden we've got this society of um you know uh snowy white uh society where they want to share with this, they want to share that whole and the little things we can get on with, can't we? We can get on with. I come from an era where we just got on with stuff. Now, whether that's wrong or right, we just got we just got on with it. We just you know, we didn't sort of lie in a bed thinking, oh you know, it's all about me. And and you said something earlier, didn't you? Off uh on the preamble before we we went to the mics, you said um, you know, you've got a number of uh schemes going on here, a number of things going on here where you've got a number of volunteers, where people are volunteering. So all of a sudden you ain't thinking about yourself, are you? You're thinking about it.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

So when you do, so that's a very interesting conversation, in it. So when you help and you right, so love your neighbour as yourself and human kindness. Let's box it up like that in a moment. When you start doing something for someone else and helping and looking after, it takes that that feeling of maybe emptiness and worry and fear and all the issues that go along with that. There is a such a powerful connection spiritually, all cultures, all ages, all backgrounds, when you help one another. So when you help one another, you bring freedom, and then that brings truth. So all of a sudden, but what we have is is a government that is locking us down without using the word lockdown, because you can get your shopping from home, you can get work from home, you can stay at home, you can do everything from home, and we've got a lockdown happening, and humanity is not being told the truth of what's happening through certain areas of life. So, what happens is as we lock ourselves down in our own home, we become insula and suddenly we lose a a handle on society and the truth.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

But look, the the thing is, Ben, if we when we're looking at this, um it's the answer is obvious. We need hope, right? So yeah, and and we need hope. And the only place we're gonna get hope, and the the government will tell you find your hope here, find your hope there, but the only place you're really gonna get hope and a satisfaction and fulfillment is in Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ, coming back to these Ten Commandments, when he was questioned, yes, they said, Teacher, what was the greatest commandment? What was the greatest one, Jennifer? And he said, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with your soul and all your might. He said, and the second one is love your neighbour as yourself. On these two, everything hangs. Now, we're into the the do not lying bit is all about loving your neighbour as yourself. Now, the problem he didn't say love yourself, keep loving yourself and point towards yourself. He didn't say that, did he? He said love your neighbour as yourself. So if we're looking out, trying to encourage even if we can just encourage someone one person of the day, that's what we're saying is the encouragement brings truth.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

So when you encourage someone and you do let's use it as this an act of kindness. That's the easiest way. And a biblical act. When you when you live your life biblically and you're serving, because we are servants and we are Christ's ambassadors, when we go into all the world and our workplace, what look at the workplace. If we was to go into the workspace and be, I I would say at the moment that the majority of the of the workplace within the UK is probably that could can be one of the most depressing places because there's no encouragement. What there is, there's structures and there's rules, very legalistic and policies that you can't be a human being, so suddenly again you become insular, you can't be truthful.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

Very difficult, isn't it? Very difficult for a for a fella out there these days, isn't it? You know, you know, you if you call someone sweetheart, you might be might be uh offending them, you know. If you say something you've got to be so careful, you yeah, here's the and and here's the problem. You I I've been in a supermarket, I've seen a little kid, you're worried about smiling at the kid, ain't you? Do you know? Yeah, and I and I tell you what brought that home to me is we were in a in a garden of a restaurant in the summer. I got my two grandkids and other got them on the swings, and uh you know, push me higher, granddad, and you know, and the things going all over the place, and then I can see the mother going, Ah. And there's a little girl, she can't be more than two. Her parents are talking about something, and she's wandering about, and she's trying to get onto the swing. Oh. Now I I said and I went over to and my boy Paul and my boy went, Dad, dad, dun, dump. So you so I had to go to the father and go, excuse me, mate, your daughter wants to.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

So the natural instinct is to help one another. Natural instinct is to help. So you want to protect someone, but you can't protect someone because you you could get a finger pointed at you or a label stamped on you for saying something or acting in a certain way. Look at look at what seems to have disappeared off of the radar in the UK. Good morning, how are you? Good morning, how are you?

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Opening the door for someone, how many times I would Ben, I I I would suggest to anyone out there, you know, uh, if you want to be used by the Lord, if you want to be used by Jesus, if you want, then that's a great place to start because you know you can say to someone, could I mean it? You've got to mean it. You got a mean it. Yeah, so you could say to someone, how are you? and and you see the countenance change on their face. When you say that, well they'll go to you, um, yeah, mate, what what uh what yes, sir, what would you like? And you go, How are you this morning? And you see their face change. I go, What how are you this morning? Because nine times out of ten, people are standing at the counter with their phone on, yeah, they're talking, uh they've got no interaction with those lovely people who are serving you. That's a great place to start. Nine times out of ten, they'll go, Yeah, I'm I'm good, and you know, whatever. But one time you'll get someone going, Well, I'm going through it.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

I'm going through it, I'm really going through it.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

And that's the time you can say, Well, I'm a Christian. Yeah, I'd like to kill me a name, I'll pray for you.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Yeah, it it's it's it's so difficult, isn't it? You know, it it's it's really hard. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Freedom is so, so important. And like you're saying there, so clear that that the conversation, the language between one another is really, really important to encourage one another, to lift one another, and to help one another. You know, it's it's so important on that side of things to encourage one another in everything that we do, everything we say. Encouragement is needed more than anything.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

Yeah, totally. And Ben, you know, we're we're hitting the new year, we've just started a second week into it, and uh it's a great way to start a new year to to encourage one another. Amen. You know, I I think I think that's you find when that happens, the Lord will open doors. And if you if you ask him in the morning, Lord, you know, who do you want me to encourage today? You'll see you'll see stuff happen. Because if you're obedient to that, stuff will happen in front of you.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

It happens directly in front of you. It's so so so important to be an encourager, to be someone that that that helps, that that says, Good morning, how are you? Uh you know, um this this is critical to what we're looking at in in this text.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

So, Ben, you you don't have to have the label of an evangelist.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

No.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Because we're all if you if you if you accepted Jesus as your Lord's sake, we're all we're all commissioned, don't we? We're all commissioned. So so you don't have to have that that label, if you like. No. But you can and you don't have to go on a mission trip to wherever, because your mission field Your Jerusalem is in your is is at your front house. Is at your front door.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Is at your front door, right in the Territory that you walk, you don't need to get a plane ticket, you don't need to go out. God's calling me to Africa. Your territory is right where your eyes are.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Mother Teresa said, didn't she? She said, Tell everyone about Jesus and start with the one next to you.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

So true, isn't it? So true. God's calling me to ministry, God's calling me to be an evangelist, I'm going to be a missionary, and I'm going to the back of beyond. Well, actually, around you in your culture and society, the church isn't preaching it proc correctly and properly. So you are the instrument. You are the last stop.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

We are witnesses of the kingdom, ain't we? We are the church. And and whatever, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever um whatever uh people say and what other people um uh say to you, whatever people um try and uh take you off course, just stick to the that just that encouragement, just have that in the back of your head, you know.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

Encourage people, you've got to encourage one another. It is critical to encourage one another. And because coming back to what you said about being an evangelist, living your life and all that sort of stuff, when you when you do that, right, being an evangelist, you don't need to go to a college or anywhere to be an evangelist, you don't need none of that whatsoever, because your life you are you you are showing and displaying, let your lamp, let your light shine.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

And the first place to do it is with your family. You you must encourage your family, yeah. We've got you what's what's the point in if your family knows that sees that you're a Christian and you believe in Jesus, but you're sitting there, well, woe is me, then what's the point? And and what's the what's the point in in being a because you're like the rest of the world. We can't be like the rest of the world.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

Can we gotta be you've got to be who so then that now we're going into right, who am I? I've got to find my identity in Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit, and then you will know the truth because a lot of people don't like to know the truth about themselves as well.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

I mean that that's huge, isn't it? I mean, we can go down that that route um at some really dig into that at some stage, but you're right, the truth will set you free. And Jesus is the truth, and Jesus will set you free. And the the the thing that um that that you don't have to worry, if you've given it to the Lord, yeah, you don't have to worry about it says in Luke, don't worry about what you've got to say, because the Holy Spirit will give it to you.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Just open your mouth and the Holy Spirit will fill it.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Job done.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Job done. So you so that means what have I got to be? I've got to be faithful and I've got to be obedient.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

And you've got to be a facilitator of the Holy Spirit, and that and and I and you have to have a real relationship with Jesus to do that. You know, you can't it can't be all it's got to be in the heart.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

So it starts with me, it all starts with me, it starts right in my heart. It it it's about repentance, about coming to Christ. You you will, so it's talking to the individual, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. So when I get free, I can share that out. And when someone else gets free, they can share that out.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Look what it funnily enough, uh I look what it says in 1 Samuel 16 7, right? So you've got David, right, who's just been an anointed king. Uh 1 Samuel 16 7. But the Lord said to Samuel, right, he said, Do not look at his appearance or his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

The heart is the key. The heart, and it starts with me. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. So I've got to bring my heart to Jesus, to Jesus to the cross, to the cross, wiped it, cleaned it, washed it, you know. There is so much in the word of God that will bring freedom. So the text that we're looking at, you know, opens up a drum skin, it opens up a chasm of there's loads of stuff we we so that's why we're gonna do, I think, two on this one.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's this sound. It's enormous scripture, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, so you've got the the straight lie, which is you know pretty obvious, but you've got is it okay sometimes to withhold the truth?

SPEAKER_00 26:39

Is it okay that's that's scripture again, isn't it you will know the truth of truth will set you free. If you withhold the truth and religion, oh dear me, we're on to a subject with this one, isn't it? The church within the UK, if it's not preaching the gospels, it's withholding the truth. To withhold the truth is a serious that's situation.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Well that's massive from the church, but in our in our own lives, we've just mentioned Santa Claus, you know. Yeah. And if you turn two letters in Santa, turns it into another word entirely, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 27:18

So so if the church isn't preaching the gospel, now it's got nothing to do with lifestyle stretch, because all we've sinned and falling short for thy glory. What it's to do with is if if the truth is preached, and the only way the truth can be preached, is to keep in the word of God and to ask God, Lord, reveal your word through us, through us as a denomination. But when you look at what's happening right now within certain denominations, they are not preaching the truth.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

They're not preaching the truth, no.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

They have manipulated the spent the scripture.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

They've gone away from uh the word of uh the gospel, they've gone away from it completely. So if you're telling people just believe in Jesus and Jesus' love and you'll get into heaven, then I I'm afraid you you're giving them the wrong repentance of sins. If you're a salesman, you're telling them that you know telling them lies. That's right, yeah. Because you've got to tell them about sin. You've got to tell them about hell. Yeah. And you've got to tell them uh what it is and what the consequence is to follow Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

You've got to and and the consequence if you don't. If you don't. There's two sides to it. But when you when you look at what the church, is the church preaching the truth? You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

The only way to the only way to well, it's an easy, easy uh fix, Ben, because if your leader, whoever's speaking on a Sunday morning, you know, you just check it by the scripture.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

Just check it by the Bible says, doesn't it, to test every spirit and to to to check every word, to make sure it lines up with the gospel of Jesus Christ, you know. Um it's unbelievable. It is just un unreal to me what actually is going on within the church itself. Honestly. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Simon, we're about to hit the 30 minutes. That has gone so quick, hasn't it?

SPEAKER_01 29:14

It's gone so then we haven't even uh scratched it. But I think the skin off this, but we're gonna do another one. We're gonna come back in the mojo, uh, and we're gonna do another one. And are we gonna break bread?

SPEAKER_00 29:27

We're gonna break bread.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

Right now?

SPEAKER_00 29:29

We're gonna break bread right now. We're gonna take this cup of break bread.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

My friends, if you're with us, there's some great stuff come out this morning. It's all about encouragement, it's all about encouraging each other, it's all about coming to the cross, it's all about letting them arms of the cross um get around you. Um and uh don't go away because there'll be another podcast on the same subject.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

On the exactly the same subject. It'll be different, but it'll be the same subject. It's the same Jesus. Yes, it's the same Jesus, and it's the same Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, same Genesis, same revelation. Let's break bread together wherever you are across the earth, whatever you may be doing at work. You know, I've I've seen we've thrown open so much this morning, just throwing the door open on everything. But when you look at all the subjects that we're bringing in, and we have to, because we need to look at everything. We need to look at government, we need to look at church, we need to look at myself, need to look at religion, need to look at education, because it's all relevant for the end times. Because are they telling us the truth or are they spinning us a line? It's very important then because uh how are we living our lives? And who am I following? Who am I following? If I follow the government, where are they taking me? Am I preparing for my when I die? Am I preparing for like the thief in the night? If Jesus comes back now, am I ready? Am I ready?

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Uh and that the deal is you can be going to church for years, you can you can uh be serving, you can you can be baptized, you can you can have been um confirmed or whatever you want to call it, but unless you've got like we said, you know, your heart, the Lord looks at the heart, unless your heart is following it right for Jesus, then you know you've got to check it, haven't you? Is your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life? That's right. Because you'll never be more alive than when you die if you if you're if you're a Christian and you're following Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

It all comes back to following Jesus. It all comes back to the whole New Testament, the Old Testament, the laws, the the New Covenant, the the prophetic language, the poems, the history, it all points to Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

And it's simple, but people are s people spend ages seaching circuit uh searching for their destiny, what's my fate, what's what what uh what's the Lord got for me? It's quite simple. Just follow Jesus. Follow and he will lead you, he'll open the doors.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

Where are we gonna go? To the cross, to Jesus, the Holy Spirit. Well you fall straight to the arms of the Ford. Where you don't want to be is the is for the Lord to say, What are you doing over there? As he did to the prophet. That's an interesting one, isn't it? What are you doing over there? Yeah, but I've ran on the glass of water, the jar of water you gave me, and the little bit of bread, and you anointed me, and I got up, you gave me strength, but you're in the wrong destination.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

You're in the wrong place. Or or you get baptized, and it's like Simon a sorcerer, because I want to get baptized because I want that.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

Oh, I want to get baptized. I want to get in. I want, I want, I want. Right, we are gonna come to the table, and this is a really beautiful time, a powerful time where we gather. So whether you're on the mics, wherever you are at this moment, you can do this later on. Just remember we don't need the Pope, don't need the bishops, don't need the leaders, we don't need anybody in an in any position to tell us when and how, because we have the high priest, and his name is Jesus. And he says, do this as often as you come together. So, Father, as I pray for this bread and Simon's gonna pray for the wine in a few moments, Lord, I ask you, Lord, for everyone listening that's with us at this moment, that we will just rest in the Father's arms. Everything is okay. Cover us in the blood of Jesus, cleanse us from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet, wash us, draw us, lead us, take us, carry us to the cross. I recognise this bread is symbolic to the body of Christ Jesus in Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

And we do we come to to the cross today and say, Father, cleanse us. Let this blood of Jesus just cleanse us completely. And uh and as we've said, let us fix our eyes on Jesus and on the cross, and let the arms of the cross uh come round and just hold us. Let your arms hold us as we move forward into this new year. In Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_00 34:46

Amen. Amen. Washed in the blood of Jesus. Washed in the blood of Jesus, brothers, sisters, Greek, slave or free, Jew or Gentile, as the scripture says, wherever you are, the gospel is for every one of us. We are gonna have a pause for a moment, but this will carry on. So this is uh hashtag Christian Straight Talk, and we're in the Ten Commandments still, and there's gonna be a second part to this, and uh we can see the scriptures open up before our very eyes. So there the second one will be up very, very quickly. Simon, can you encourage give us an encouraging word as we just drop off the peg?

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Yeah, as we come into this uh as this into this new year, and I think what we said is you know, if we wake up every day and go, Father, who do you want me to talk to a day? Yeah, where Jesus, where do you want me to follow you a day? And and we need to be Holy Spirit needs to be checking ourselves every at every point throughout the day just to just to make sure, you know, we we knock off any of that um any of that worry, that grumpiness, and approach each person that we meet with encouragement. And you imagine that if that happens through through throughout the community, well it's gonna make a massive difference. Oh goodness. So we we say um we just encourage everyone out there to to do that, to encourage each other, and encourage people in your family because, and especially your children, your grandchildren, if you don't encourage them, there's no one else going to. So surround it with prayer, bless them, and uh let's see what this year holds, and let it be an exciting year for us in Jesus' name.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

Amen. There we go. Thank you so much. You're joining Simon and myself for hashtag Christian Straight Talk as we just try and bring real life situations to the to the mics and just be completely raw and open before each and every one of us. Be an encourager, be an encourager, never give up. Thank you so much. You can find us on Buzzsprout, Spotify, Amazon Music, Alexa. Also, you can find the book hashtag one, hashtag two will be out very, very soon in the name of Jesus. Hold tight to the word of God, never give up, push for Jesus, but also stand up. Let's stand above the parapet of life and hold on to the living word of God. God bless you in Jesus' name. Amen.